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Harvard's upstart varsity fencing team will face its stiffest challenge of the season Saturday when it takes on Columbia...
Harvard, improving weekly, lived up to its number two regional ranking last Saturday by knocking upstart Penn from the undefeated category...
This is an interesting day in the Ivies for several reasons. First, there are two key games. Our own Harvard team plays Dartmouth, and a title favorite and a title upstart, Princeton and Pennsylvania, meet in Philadelphia. A third key game, although the outcome isn't really in doubt...
...roof." A hardheaded Scotch drinker (only at night), he has smashed upwards of $700 worth of crockery in bouzouki establishments, and has been known to snore in a La Scala opera box during a Callas première. Even his fellow Greek shipping kings long dismissed him as a crude upstart. Says one acquaintance: "He was trash to some Greeks, the way old Joe Kennedy was trash to some Irish...
...this author who sports the name of the 18th century philosopher of capitalism and who gambols over the arcane and volatile ground of Wall Street and international finance? John Kenneth Galbraith pleads innocent. Is the Wall Street Journal perhaps sheltering an upstart? No. Impeccable leaks lead to George J. W. Goodman, 37, a former Rhodes scholar, novelist (The Wheeler Dealers), onetime writer for TIME and FORTUNE, and now editor of a journal for mutual-fund managers. A shade under medium height, conservatively sheared, dressed and spectacled, Goodman blends in perfectly with the traffic on Wall Street. He is the archetypal...